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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.

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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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